Album Review: Money - Suicide Songs

Money's second album Suicide Songs is a lesson in not judging a book (or record) by its cover.

The title itself and accompanying cover art — depicting a bare chested Jamie Lee with a knife posed above his head — lend to the (initially true) misconception that the album is overwhelmingly morose. The first few tracks I Am The Lord and I'm Not Here confirm suspicions, but then the tracks start to feel comforting in their melancholy. Night Came evokes a certain Radiohead indulgence in raw sentiment, with Lee's breaking falsetto adding to the poetry of You Look Like A Sad Painting On Both Sides Of The Sky, steering the album into a beautiful catharsis and away from the exercise in self pity that it could have been. Lee's gaping mouth on the cover, after finishing the album, now looks to be open in blissful calm instead of pain or lachrymose.